Te Shutle May 2017 The Next NASFA Meeting is 6:30P Saturday 20 May 2017 at the New Church Location Concom Meeting 3P; New Church Location, 20 May 2017 CONCOM MEETINGS d Oyez, Oyez d The next Con†Stellation XXXV Concom Meeting will be at ! 3P on 20 May 2017—the same day as this month’s NASFA The next NASFA Meeting will be 20 May 2017, at the meeting. It will be at the NEW church building. There will be a NEW regular meeting location. It’s still the Madison campus dinner break between the concom and the club meeting. of Willowbrook Baptist Church, but that has moved about a In general, future Concom Meetings are expected to be 3P on mile to 446 Jeff Road. This will be the first meeting at this the same day as the club meeting, at least until we need to go to location. See the map at right for directions to the church. See two meetings a month. Note, though, that the date of the July the map on page 13 for a closeup of parking at the church as Concom Meeting is TBD. Other exceptions for the date/time/place well as how to find the meeting room (“The Huddle”), which is of meetings may be made if (for instance) the club does a “field close to one of the back doors for the church. trip” program like we did for the Huntsville Art Museum in 2016. MAY PROGRAM The May program will be Princess Leia’s Stolen Death Star New Church ~0.8 miles north of US 72 Plans—a set of music videos by the band Palette-Swap Ninja. Location Map To In them, the plot of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is told Willowbrook Madison to the tune of The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts 446 Jeff Road NW New Club Band (and illustrated with clips from the movie). Huntsville AL 35806 MAY ATMM Meeting Maria and Adam Grim will host the May After-The-Meeting Road Jeff Location Meeting at the church. The usual rules will apply—that is, please bring food to share and your favorite drink. Also, please US 72W stay to help clean up. We need to be good guests and leave (aka University Drive) ! Kroger things at least as clean as we found them especially as this will Shopping be the first time we use this new location for the ATMM. Center Note that we can have ATMMs in the new church location, Slaughter but there is a hard deadline to be out of the building by 10P. A Road discussion is planned for the May 2017 NASFA Business Meeting to decide what to do about ATMMs and the club meet- Old Church Location ing time(s) going forward. Continuing Our 37th Year of Publication Inside this issue… Chesley Awards Nominations ....................................................4 News & Info ...............................................................................2 Locus Awards Nominations .......................................................5 Not the Minutes of the April Meeting .......................................3 Awards Roundup ........................................................................7 NASFA Calendar ........................................................................4 Letters of Comment ..................................................................12 Deadline for the June 2017 issue of The NASFA Shuttle is Monday 29 May 2017 FUTURE PROGRAMS HUGO NOMS: FAN ARTIST LIST CHANGED • October: Con†Stellation XXXV Post-Mortem. The list of finalists in the Fan Artist Hugo category has • December: NASFA Christmas Party. Stay tuned for more changed. Speaking for the con, Nicholas Whyte explained: info on the location as we get closer. “Alex Garner, who was announced as a finalist in the Best Fan JudySue would love to hear from you with ideas for future Artist category for the 2017 Hugo Awards on 4 April, has noti- programs—even more so if you can lead one yourself! fied the Hugo administrators that in fact the entirety of his pub- FUTURE ATMMs lished 2016 work was professional and not fan art.” We need volunteers to host After-the-Meeting Meetings for As a result, Garner [who had been supported by the Rabid all future months in 2017, beginning in June. Please email Puppies slate -ED] was removed and replaced by Steve Stiles. <[email protected]> to volunteer or inquire. The revised list of finalists for this category is: FUTURE CLUB MEETING DATES/LOCATIONS Ninni Aalto Vesa Lehtimäki Likhain (M. Sereno) Most meetings in 2017 will be on the normal 3rd Saturday at Spring Schoenhuth Steve Stiles Mansik Yang the normal time and meeting location. (Allowing for the fact WORLDCON SITE SELECTION OPEN that the church has moved and we have moved with them.) Site Selection for the 2019 Worldcon has opened—adminis- There’s currently one known exception: tered by Helsinki’s Worldcon 75. There is only one filed bid; • July: The meeting will be one week later than usual (that is, for Dublin Ireland. They propose to hold the 77th Worldcon 15– 22 July) due to a conflict with DeepSouthCon 55/ConGre- 19 August 2019 at the Convention Centre Dublin, North Dock, gate 4. Dublin 1, Ireland. CHANGING SHUTTLE DEADLINES Voting is open to Attending and Supporting Members of In general, the monthly Shuttle production schedule has been Worldcon 75 and must include an Advanced Supporting Mem- moved to the left a bit (versus prior practice). Though things bership fee ($40 or €40) which will give the voter a Supporting are a bit squishy, the current intent is to put each issue to bed as Membership in the winning 2019 convention. This fee can be much as 9 days before each month’s meeting. paid in euros online or in dollars in various other ways if the Please check the deadline below the Table of Contents each ballot is mailed to the available US address. (There is also a month to submit news, reviews, LoCs, or other material. Finnish mailing address option.) JOINING THE NASFA EMAIL LIST There will be no electronic voting available for Site Selection All NASFAns who have email are urged to join the NASFA (it is optional under current rules) so all votes must be mailed email list, which you can do online at <tinyurl.com/ in, done in person at Worldcon 75, or hand carried to that con NASFAEmail>. The list is usually low traffic, though the rate for people who don’t attend. The deadline for mailed ballots to is rather variable. Generally the list is limited to announce- arrive is 29 July 2017. Further details (including info about the ments about club activities plus the occasional message of Dublin bid and a printable PDF ballot) are available at the Site general interest to north-Alabama sf/f/h/etc. fans. Non NAS- Selection page on Helsinki’s website <www.worldcon.fi/wsfs/ FAns are both encouraged and welcomed to join the list, but site-selection>. please only do so if you’re interested in the above restricted While it is theoretically possible for a write-in bid to win or topics. for the electorate to send the decision to the onsite Worldcon NASFA CALENDAR ONLINE Business Meeting, in all likelihood Dublin is a shoo-in in for NASFA has an online calendar on Google. Interested parties the 2019 Worldcon. Assuming any non-North American site can check the calendar online, but you can also subscribe to it wins, Site Selection for a 2019 North American Science Fiction and have your Outlook, iCal, or other calendar automatically Convention will be held at the 2018 Worldcon in San José. At updated as events (Club Meetings, Concom Meetings, local sf/ least one prospective 2019 NASFiC bid has been announced— f/h/etc. events) are added or changed. You can view the calen- for Layton UT, which is a bit north of the Salt Lake City area dar online at <tinyurl.com/NASFACal>. (closer to Ogden UT). ! DRAGON AWARDS VOTING OPEN ! Online voting—open to the public (site registration required) —for the 2017 Dragon Awards is open at <awards.dragon News & Info con.org>. The current nomination round will end at 11:59P ! EDT on 24 June 2017. The final round will begin in early Au- WORLDCON 75 WANTS TO HEAR FROM YOU gust 2017 and end at 11:59P EDT on 29 August 2017. Winners Among the exhibits at the upcoming Helsinki Worldcon, will be announced at the 2017 Dragon Con, to be held 1–4 Sep- they plan a display of greetings from world fandom. Please tember 2017 at the Hyatt Regency and other hotels in Atlanta send your postcards to: GA. Worldcon 75 NEW DISABILITY-AWARENESS AWARD c/o Maa ja ilma ry A new award—the D Franklin Defying Doomsday Award PO Box 665 <defyingdoomsday.twelfthplanetpress.com/announcing-the-d- FI-00101 Helsinki franklin-defying-doomsday-award>—has been established to FINLAND recognize work in disability advocacy in sf/f literature. They HUGO AWARDS VOTING PERIOD ANNOUNCED are currently seeking nominees for the 2016 award year. See HUGO VOTER PACKET MOOTED the URL above for more info. Voting for the 2017 Hugo Awards and the John W. Campbell OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY GETS SCREWY Award for Best New Writer has opened. It will close 15 July The OED—which calls itself “the definitive record of the 2017 at 11:59P PDT. Voting can be done by mailed paper ballot English language”—has announced they are adding “sonic or online. You must be a member Worldcon 75—they will screwdriver” (from Doctor Who). The announcement <blog. email you a custom link for online voting. oxforddictionaries.com/2017/04/sonic-screwdriver-doctor- The Hugo Voter Packet is expected to be available sometime who-oed> notes this entry will join “TARDIS,” “Dalek,” and in May2017.